Well, welcome back everybody. Happy Monday to you. I'm so glad that you're here. Thanks for being with me. Thanks for spending an hour to chat. Appreciate you all sharing the show as well.

That's one of my favorite things is when I hear you guys are out there promoting and

telling everybody what we're doing around here. Makes me just warms the cockles of my dark heart. And today we've got a lot on our

plate. We have war, we have interventions, we have inflation, we have high

interest rates, we have high prices right everything that's happening around us today feels like if it

feels like stuff's about ready to fall apart I got a feeling that it is. You know, I just I get the sense

having been through a few of these in my day that we are in having being a student of

history as well, that's helpful, that we are on the cusp of something very dangerous.

And I thought we would start out today talking a little bit about the, you know, what

happened in Israel with Iran, and then we'll move over into some of the

other stuff which I think is is as pressing not more pressing probably more

pressing but you know I I I think a lot of what you're seeing right now is

distraction. There are some real threats out there but underlying it the real

pain what's really going to hurt Americans has nothing to do with things that are going on

externally.

Iran and the war in the Middle East and all that stuff can have an effect, it can have an impact,

but it is not going to be the thing that people are really

focused on assuming that we don't have an all-out world war which is very

possible at this point I've been chatting back and forth with my buddy Mike Mike and I do a lot of texting he sends me a

lot of crazy stuff and I believe about 10% of it but he and I are very ideologically

aligned even though we have different opinions about what we think is going to happen and when it's going to happen.

But I really like doing it back and forth with him because when it comes down to what we believe and what we want

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